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Welcome to Wikipedia, CenterforIsraelEducation! Thank you for your contributions. I am Epeefleche and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Thanks so much for your message! I'm very excited about getting more involved! First question, is this the right place to start a conversation? I have a couple of of questions.
Thanks! Patrick
October 2013
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- Why can't I edit Wikipedia?
Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. The edits may have violated one or more of our rules on spamming, which include: adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements and using Wikipedia for promotion. Wikipedia has many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, but such groups are generally discouraged from using Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
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{{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}}on your user talk page. - Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
- Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
- Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
- Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.
{{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bbb23 (talk) 22:32, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Pac86 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Requested username:
Request reason:
Accept reason:
Here are a few key questions:
- Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
- Do you understand conflict of interest?
- Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?
You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. Daniel Case (talk) 03:14, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Daniel, thanks so much for your help. I completely understand that changing my username DOES NOT give me the right to violate the 3 principles you mentioned above.
- I don't intend to use this as a link depository. My boss is a published author who is an expert on the Middle East so he does have a lot of valuable information that can be contributed but I understand the necessity of adding information that has been verified by 3rd parties and is not just a page on our Website. - I do understand the conflict of interest and a member of the staff should NOT BE pushing our own material unless we are simply highlighting a relevant piece of information that has been independently verified and published. The information I've tried to contribute thus far does not represent a point of view, rather important supplementary facts that help fill-in the articles. - I understand this has to be done the proper way, no original research. Notable contributions will come from 3rd party verification, from trusted sources and no original research.
Thank you so much, Patrick 170.140.245.144 (talk) 16:27, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
- Please login to respond to any questions. First, it protects your privacy by NOT revealing your IP address, and secondly it assures admins that the responses are genuinely by the holder of the account in order to be WP:GAB-compliant ES&L 22:27, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
- @Miniapolis: asked me to comment. If Miniapolis and @Daniel Case: are satisified, I have no objection to the user name change and permitting Patrick to edit with it. A bureaucrat will have to be brought in to effectuate it. Daniel handles a lot of these requests, so I'm sure he knows what to do.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:52, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
- Follow the instructions on the accept notice to initiate a name change. Daniel Case (talk) 23:30, 18 October 2013 (UTC)